How is this be a scandal anyways? It was in the open press just before the acquisition that youtube had negotiated a license with the copyright holders to publish music videos. Of course, that would not cover other video sharing sites, so they would continue to get sued, giving youtube an advantage in the market. How is that backhanded? Is it a conspiracy when Microsoft gives me preferential treatment by allowing me to use Windows XP because I bribed them with $199, whereas those who use XP without paying get sued? Well, you could put it that way, but it's just business as usual.
I know somebody who took a tour of Tiananmen Square just a couple years ago. She asked the tour guide about the brutal supression of the demonstrations in 1989, and how many people died. (The Chinese Red Cross said they'd counted over 2600 dead). The tour guide said that of course he knew about the protests, but nobody had died at all.
Acutally in revisiting the link I just posted, it says: "The Chinese government has maintained that there were no deaths within the square itself, which appears to outside observers to be technically correct, as the Square itself was evacuated peacefully." So I guess any situation can be smoothed over with enough spin.
From the article, it sounds like this study only considered old men, and not males in general. Could it be that today's better health care disproportionately helps low-testosterone people? Again from the article:
Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and plays an important role in maintaining bone and muscle mass. Low testosterone levels have been linked to health problems, including lowered libido and diabetes.
So maybe the average lower testerone just results from diabetes patients and others living longer.
Separating content from presentation on the client side is just a bad idea. It pushes too much complexity to the client, which users don't care about anyways. Browsers should only have to support a simple presentation format, which a little simple customization of basic things like linewrapping. Let the server side worry about chugging through various data sources and formatting templates to create a good-looking presentation, but don't try to standardize all that on the client side. It just hasn't worked.
Take another look at the constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 :
the Congress shall have power . . . to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
That is clearly the basis for both patent and copyright.
As for international copyright, the Berne Convention wasn't until 1886, a hundred years after the Constitution, hardly "at the time."
I also visit youtube mostly for user generated content. The problem is, most of the good home-made stuff is tainted by background music which is almost all illegal.
A boarding pass isn't even supposed to be a security document. That's why you have to show your ID as well as your boarding pass, just to get the privelige of being x-rayed, bomb-sniffed, and patted down before being allowed into the secured area. If anybody thought boarding passes were supposed to enhance security, they wouldn't let you print your own.
In other words, I think the professor's research is silly, and I think the congressman is equally silly for calling for his arrest.
But there is an enormous difference between the computing environment of a mainframe in the 60's and a $250 PC today. I would daresay that not only is the PC much faster, but it lives in a MUCH more hostile environment. And instead of a professional staff to configure and operate it, you get... not much.
That said, I don't understand the new virtualization features anyways. I'm a longtime VMWare Workstation user, and was hoping for a big performance boost due to hardware virtualization support with my new Core Duo laptop. But looking into it, VMWare denies that the new virtualization hardware support is even beneficial, while others claim that Parallels uses it and gets huge improvements. So you can argue whether we're "ready" for it, but the mainstream deployment sure seems immature at the moment.
That does not mean that it immediately will be applied in any of Apple's products.
Oh, it's worse than that... this patent decreases the odds that anybody else will finally get around to implementing this obvious feature.
I only hope it only covers buying music vi WiFi, and not selectively downloading music from your own computer via WiFi, or buying and storing music wirelessly using a 3G or other cellphone network.
"True" is your trump card there. (I'm not so sure "true" tranlation is possible at all, even by a human translator.) But they may very well achieve a level of performance which is useful, which is all that matters.
"Prove" is a very high standard, so probably not. "Support," yes. Here is the very first google result for "computer-games children violence", which is 5 years old but references a meta-analysis of 35 studies which had already been performed. And these studies are mentioned on Slashdot from time to time. Of course, people are very quick to discount studies they don't want to believe. Let's assume the studies are only somewhat rigorous. Even so, are there some equally rigorous studies disputing these results? I know there are some touting other benefits of games, like cognitive skills. But enough work has been done on a link to violence to raise it as an issue.
With livna added to your yum config, installing the drivers is as easy as yum install kmod-nvidia and restarting X.
...and dinking around with your/etc/X11/xorg.conf for a few hours to get OpenGL acceleration, if your experience is like mine. In fact I still haven't got the xv extension working.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it works smoothly for some.
Basically, what I'm trying to say is that the Gaming Industry could show up to an event like this and have God as a witness and no one there will listen to them when they say videogames do not cause children to perform violent acts.
Does the game industry have any research to support the assertion that games have no effect? If not, claiming such a thing will prove nothing but their greed.
It is time for the game industry to get beyond "well I played them and never killed anybody!" Either they should try to prove it, or fall back on another argument, such as emphacising freedom over absolute safety.
You have to turst people somewhat, but you can encrypt your stuff.
But to be adopted, any such solution would have to protect the bosses' email from peons while still allowing convenient access to the peons' email by the bosses. Companies don't want email to be private, what they want is to control who can read whose mail. And of course the government is above all of them, making requirements that even the bosses' emails are archived and subject to subponea later on. In fact, President Bush stated in an interview just yesterday that he never uses email, because it leaves a permanent record:
"In a CNBC interview with Maria Bartiromo, Bush was asked a question on many of our minds: 'I'm curious, have you ever Googled anybody? Do you use Google?'
"According to CNBC's unofficial transcript, he replied: 'Occasionally... 'I tend not to email or -- not only tend not to email, I don't email, because of the different record requests that can happen to a president. I don't want to receive emails because, you know, there's no telling what somebody's email may -- it would show up as, you know, a part of some kind of a story, and I wouldn't be able to say, `Well, I didn't read the email.' `But I sent it to your address, how can you say you didn't?' So, in other words, I'm very cautious about emailing.'"
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What, you're holding out for a security policy that's still effective even when it's disregarded? Good luck with that.
That implies that Iran and N Korea would be stupid not to build a nuclear arsenal. Ok. Now what?
How is this be a scandal anyways? It was in the open press just before the acquisition that youtube had negotiated a license with the copyright holders to publish music videos. Of course, that would not cover other video sharing sites, so they would continue to get sued, giving youtube an advantage in the market. How is that backhanded? Is it a conspiracy when Microsoft gives me preferential treatment by allowing me to use Windows XP because I bribed them with $199, whereas those who use XP without paying get sued? Well, you could put it that way, but it's just business as usual.
Acutally in revisiting the link I just posted, it says: "The Chinese government has maintained that there were no deaths within the square itself, which appears to outside observers to be technically correct, as the Square itself was evacuated peacefully." So I guess any situation can be smoothed over with enough spin.
Steer clear of the tuna salad.
You honestly think Americans would be allowed to own guns if they were invented today? I truly think not.
Separating content from presentation on the client side is just a bad idea. It pushes too much complexity to the client, which users don't care about anyways. Browsers should only have to support a simple presentation format, which a little simple customization of basic things like linewrapping. Let the server side worry about chugging through various data sources and formatting templates to create a good-looking presentation, but don't try to standardize all that on the client side. It just hasn't worked.
Since you're being a jerk, I won't bother to respond unless one or two other people agree with you and mod you up.
I also visit youtube mostly for user generated content. The problem is, most of the good home-made stuff is tainted by background music which is almost all illegal.
Who cares? As long as she's xrayed like everybody else, I don't.
In other words, I think the professor's research is silly, and I think the congressman is equally silly for calling for his arrest.
That said, I don't understand the new virtualization features anyways. I'm a longtime VMWare Workstation user, and was hoping for a big performance boost due to hardware virtualization support with my new Core Duo laptop. But looking into it, VMWare denies that the new virtualization hardware support is even beneficial, while others claim that Parallels uses it and gets huge improvements. So you can argue whether we're "ready" for it, but the mainstream deployment sure seems immature at the moment.
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"Prove" is a very high standard, so probably not. "Support," yes. Here is the very first google result for "computer-games children violence", which is 5 years old but references a meta-analysis of 35 studies which had already been performed. And these studies are mentioned on Slashdot from time to time. Of course, people are very quick to discount studies they don't want to believe. Let's assume the studies are only somewhat rigorous. Even so, are there some equally rigorous studies disputing these results? I know there are some touting other benefits of games, like cognitive skills. But enough work has been done on a link to violence to raise it as an issue.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it works smoothly for some.
It is time for the game industry to get beyond "well I played them and never killed anybody!" Either they should try to prove it, or fall back on another argument, such as emphacising freedom over absolute safety.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
But of course a bank of huge generators like that will have other expenses in addition to fuel, like maintinence or even dedicated support staff.